In Selma, Alabama. I didn't really go inside the church, but I did watch the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have a competition to see who could get more of the SPIRIT-UH!

What a freaking day, people. Selma was expecting 30,000 people---70,000 showed up. We marched from Brown Chapel where James Bevel, Amelia Boynton, and Dr. King marched, down the street, and over the Edmund Pettus Bridge to Montgomery. 50 years ago, the 600 protesters who were protesting the ridiculous systemic voting disenfranchisement of minorities were met at the bottom of that bridge with billy clubs, dogs, and tear gas. Because they wanted their voices heard. Walking over that bridge with all those people was an experience I'll never forget.

Here are some pics:


70,000 people! It was moving.

That's really cool, Steel! I love the photo of you smiling at your "little" bro

(March 9, 2015 at 2:03 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: That's really cool, Steel! I love the photo of you smiling at your "little" bro

Yeah, his wife couldn't figure out my phone's camera. There was an awkward 30 secs of "hold on" that I was giggling about.

Awesome

Did anyone dress up like 60s police officers?

(March 9, 2015 at 9:29 pm)Drich Wrote: Did anyone dress up like 60s police officers?

You silly excuse for a human.

Thank you so much for the photos. What a day. And yes I can see it was moving. Religion, for better or worse is part of the civil right movement. No reason to buy in to anything beyond the movement.

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(March 9, 2015 at 9:29 pm)Drich Wrote: Did anyone dress up like 60s police officers?

Mostly, I think an anti-button would be a bad idea here. And then I see posts like this one. What exactly do you think you are accomplishing?

Can we get a button that alerts the mods to Dirch being a idiot on a forum thread?

(March 9, 2015 at 11:01 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Religion, for better or worse is part of the civil right movement. No reason to buy in to anything beyond the movement.

The influence of southern black churches in the civil rights movement cannot be understated. It is difficult in that charged setting to not get swept up in the sheer emotion of it all. We stood outside that chapel in Selma and watched the service (or at least some small portion of it... it was a good 4 hours of bloviating) outside on a jumbotron. It really was funny to see Sharpton and Jackson compete for who had the most holy spirit. When Al started to end every word with "-uh" I was laughing aloud.

"I-uh want-uh to say to you-uh! This-uh cannot stand-uh! This-uh will not stand-uh! We-uh will-uh prevail-uh!"

It strikes me as very sad that even after the utter atrocities that we acknowledge just 50 years ago, there are still people in this country that want to make voting for minorities more difficult. These pretenders who claim to love democracy are loath to allow everyone the same chance to represent themselves because they are likely to disagree.

What really bothers me and i mean really bothers me black christians...
One would think no just put it out there that is the same religion that got them enslaved and should hate it
but its the exact opposite.